Industry News: November

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Maranatha! Music has updated the current format of its best-selling, popular “green,” “red,” “beige” and “purple” Praise Chorus Classic Series songbooks to be available for the first time ever on CD-ROM, on sale Nov. 18. This CD-ROM set is packed with an updated and expanded collection of over 400 worship songs. The songs are compiled from the original printed books that are no longer in print and available, the extensive CCLI (Christian Copyright International) chart and Maranatha! Music catalog.

11/12/08Canaan Records Offers Christmas Ornaments

From November 1, 2008 until December 31, 2008, Canaan Records is offering a free Christmas gift to customers of the Canaan Records’ store at www.canaanrecords.com/store. Fans can purchase releases from the Hoppers, Mike & Kelly Bowling, the Mike LeFevre Quartet and Kim Hopper or Canaan’s two-disc retrospective, Canaan Revisited, to receive their free gift. Personally autographed Canaan Christmas ornaments from the Hoppers, Mike & Kelly Bowling and the Mike LeFevre Quartet will be sent free of charge to fans who purchase a combination of two or more of these Canaan Records projects on the website.

11/1/08 Maranatha! Music Signs Deal with Musictoday

Maranatha! Music announced today that the label has signed a strategic deal with Musictoday, a Live Nation company, to take over their online merchandising presence. Musictoday will handle all of Maranatha!’s online merchandise orders, customer service, special promotions and sales opportunities which will integrate directly through www.maranathamusic.com. The new official store http://maranathamusic.shop.musictoday.com launched on Wednesday, October 14th, 2008.